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Memory effects and thermodynamics in strong field plasmas

J. C. R. Bloch, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9910073

Abstract

We study the evolution of a strong field plasma using a quantum Vlasov equation with a non-Markovian source term and a simple collision term, and calculate the time dependence of the energy- and number-density, and the temperature. The evolution of a plasma produced with RHIC-like initial conditions is well described by a low density approximation to the source term. However, non-Markovian aspects should be retained to obtain an accurate description of the early stages of an LHC-like plasma.

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